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Flat map to globe

Hello all,

I have several binders of campaign materials that consist of over a decade of gaming in my home spun setting. As if trying to compile it all into something consistent and respectable looking wasn't hard enough... I can't help but want to attempt a special keepsake. Has anyone had any experiance trying to create a globe form of any of their maps? Initially I thought I could try redrawing my world as a series of adjacent pointed elipses (I wish I new the formal name for that map style), and then form them onto a sphere. It's not a serious endeavor at this point, more of a novelty at the back of my mind while I go through GIMP tutorials and try to remember old details that were left out of my notes. I'm sure all the relative scale issues of curving the maps would be frustrating. A cloth map might be an easier alternative

If you're talking about a real globe sitting on your desk then I vaguely remember someone doing that here once but dang if I can find it.

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)

A globe you say? Casts resurrect thread on my very first post here on the guild: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=725
Chris Wayan is very talented sculptor and artist (if a bit unusual). He has created globes for many of his worlds and painted them. Take a look at: